Qantas Dreamliner flights from Brisbane start.....

The Australian airline Qantas launches its first international Boeing 787 Dreamliner flights from Queensland this weekend with a daily service to Los Angeles and onwards to New York from Brisbane.

The airlines says that four of the national carrier’s 787-9s are going to be based at Brisbane Airport, the service to Hong Kong is scheduled to start in December, with other destinations to follow in due course.  Qantas Group CEO, Alan Joyce, basing the Dreamliners at Brisbane would bring new jobs to the airport, “We’ll have 120 cabin crew and pilots based in Brisbane to operate the Dreamliner flights and a further 350 indirect jobs are expected to be created as a result,” he said.

Tulip arrives at her new home base........13th Dreamliner for KLM

The 13th Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner arrived at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport for KLM Royal Dutch Airlines today, and she's got the name of Tulip!

Tulip, registration PH-BHP arrived from planemaker Boeing's Seattle plant this morning and was welcomed to its new home base by staff and spotters.  KLM’s Dreamliners are all named after flowers or flowering plants, which are a very popular a typical Dutch export which fits perfectly with the airline. Some of the 787s in KLM's fleet carry names such as Orchid, Sunflower, Carnation, Lavender and Marguerite. The 13th Dreamliner is called tulip, which is perhaps the most famous flower export of The Netherlands. 

Tulip is the third Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner to arrive on Dutch soil,  so far in 2018 with two others arriving in January and April.  The latest Dreamliner is the last Boeing 787-9 to arrive for the time being. Expectations are that in June 2019, KLM will take delivery of its first Boeing 787-10. The Dutch airline has already added seven new Embraers to its fleet as part of its fleet renewal programme and to support its regional expansion plans. 

EL AL gets retrojet painted Dreamliner as losses mount

The Israeli airline El Al saw its sixth Boeing 787 Dreamliner arrive at its home base of  Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv on the 14th, resplendent in a retro livery. 

The twinjet, registration 4X-EDF arrived at around 08:50 local time on 14th August, following a flight from Boeing in Seattle. The paint job on the 'retrojet' dates from the sixties when it appeared on the airlines Boeing 707's and has been applied to this, the latest aircraft to join the El Al fleet to help commemorate the carrier’s 70th anniversary.

Hopping over to Hong Kong on a roo.......

The leading Australian airline, Qantas, has said it will deploy its Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner aircraft on routes to Hong Kong from December this year.

Brisbane to Hong Kong from 19 December 2018
Melbourne to Hong Kong between 13 December 2018 until 29 March 2019
Sydney to Hong Kong from 30 March 2019.

The changes are timed with the arrival of Qantas’ eighth Dreamliner and will join the national carrier’s A330 and A380 aircraft that also fly to Hong Kong.

Air Europa Dreamliner to fly to Amsterdam!

Air Europa will be increasing its winter 2018/19 capacity on its popular Madrid – Amsterdam route, with the introduction of one of the airlines Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner aircraft on 1 of 2 daily flight. 

From the 28th October this year, the Dreamliner will operate UX1091 from Madrid at 0705 arriving Amsterdam at 0945. The return leg is UX1098  departing Amsterdam 1105 arriving in back in Madrid at 1740.

Air Tahiti Nui Introduces New Tahitian Dreamliners for Worldwide Distribution and Sales

                              Air Tahiti Nui introduced its new Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner cabin layout in the Global Distribution System (GDS) for worldwide distribution and sales. In 2015, the flag carrier of French Polynesia finalized a purchase order for two 787-9 Dreamliners and the lease of two additional 787-9s through Air Lease Corporation. The new "Tahitian Dreamliner" will be available starting November 2018 on its first flights between Tahiti and Auckland, New Zealand.

The phasing out of Air Tahiti Nui's current Airbus A340-300 fleet will commence in November 2018 and be completed by September 2019, coinciding with the airline's 20th anniversary.